Virtual Reality Preserves Disappearing Land

Coastal communities are capturing their cultures and landscapes in virtual reality before sea level rise steals them for good.

Jun 18, 2018 | 750 words, about 3 minutes

What Bones, Genes, and Space-Singed Rocks Tell Us About the Peopling of the Americas

Two new studies add to the emerging narrative of how the first people arrived in and settled the Americas.

May 31, 2018 | 1,000 words, about 5 minutes

Soon Your Phone May Be Powered by Ship Soot

Researchers found a way to turn carbon pollution into graphite, a component widely used in batteries.

May 17, 2018 | 550 words, about 2 minutes

Using Cryptocurrency to Fight Cryptofishing

One company thinks it has a solution to fisheries’ myriad transparency problems.

May 9, 2018 | 800 words, about 4 minutes

Local Food as Medicine

A new program is bringing traditional food back into Haida Gwaii’s hospitals.

Apr 27, 2018 | 700 words, about 3 minutes

Pulling Up a Piece of Hades’s Home

Expeditions to the hadal seafloor are turning up a trove of surprising discoveries.

Apr 23, 2018 | 700 words, about 3 minutes

Budding Barnacle Bonanza

In the search for new seafood, researchers are working to bring the gooseneck barnacle to the United States.

Apr 16, 2018 | 450 words, about 2 minutes

A Whale (Shark) of an Ethical Dilemma

Tourists know—and knowingly accept—that animals may be suffering for their wildlife experience.

Apr 13, 2018 | 800 words, about 4 minutes